Pascoe House is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1975. Mill. 11 related planning applications.

Pascoe House

WRENN ID
shadowed-step-rowan
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 May 1975
Type
Mill
Address
Pascoe House, 54 Bute Street, Butetown, CF10 5AF
OS grid reference
ST 190 748
Coordinates
51.46643, -3.16606
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Pascoe House is an eclectic, High Victorian building featuring strong Gothic and Italian Renaissance elements. It stands three storeys high with an attic, constructed from coursed dark rubble with Bath stone dressings and a Radyr stone plinth band. The ground floor showcases polychromy in its arcading. The hipped slate roof is adorned with fine stone chimney stacks that are grouped together by a wraparound stone band, with the left-hand chimneys marking the end of the original structure. The eaves are elaborately treated, featuring a pierced parapet above a deep cornice inspired by acanthus leaves.

The building originally had a symmetrical facade with a configuration of two windows, a central entrance bay, and two more windows, flanked by pilaster strips. It was later extended by three bays to the left, which also has an end pilaster strip. The second floor includes an impost band, a rope-moulded sill band, and nook shafts, while the first floor features a lower band course that links the segmental-headed windows, which are framed by heavily ornamented architraves. The ground floor windows are arcaded, with polychrome voussoirs and bosses in the tympani, a foliated impost band, and ballflowers at the bases of the nook shafts, with a swept band below the sills. The pointed truncated granite columns taper towards the base, and there are panelled double doors leading to a shouldered doorway. The earlier part of the building has cellar openings, and the left-hand end has a single window, while the rear features a five-window and four-window arrangement with a skewed angle to the three-window extension.

The varied dormers include two pyramidal roof dormers on the left, modern dormers in the middle, and a gabled dormer on the right. The original section has a central two-storey projection. To the left, at the junction with Dock Lane, there is a triangular enclosure defined by iron railings with floral finials, square iron gatepiers with finials, and gates that match the style. Inside, the main rooms are decorated with guilloche pattern cornices and panelled doors.

Local climate

Pascoe House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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